On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 14 1968
Born on This Day
Achim Müller🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1938–2024
Days lived
31,425
Agnes Pockels🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chemist pioneer in surface science · 1862–1935
Days lived
26,942
Al Nichols🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1852–1936
Days lived
30,805
Alexander Abusch🇵🇱
deceasedwriter · 1902–1982
Days lived
29,202
Alexander Kluge🇩🇪
writer · b. 1932
Days alive
13,149
Alexandra Mueller🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1988
Bacary Sagna🇫🇷
football player · b. 1983
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Breel Embolo
association football player · b. 1997
Candice Wiggins🇺🇸
American basketball player · b. 1987
Carl von Marr🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican artist (1858-1936) · 1858–1936
Days lived
28,635
Dámaso Marte🇩🇴
film director · b. 1975
Daniel Miller🇬🇧
British music producer and founder of Mute Records · b. 1951
Days alive
6,209
Denis Boytsov🇷🇺
Russian boxer · b. 1986
Edirisinghe Senanayake
Olympic pistol shooter · b. 1970
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Erich Engel🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1891–1966
Days lived
27,478
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Eugen Schiffer🇵🇱
deceasedGerman politician (1860-1954) · 1860–1954
Days lived
34,536
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Freddie Highmore🇬🇧
English actor · b. 1992
Geetu Mohandas🇮🇳
Actor · b. 1981
Gerald Hylkema🇳🇱
deceasedDutch footballers (1946-2002) · 1946–2002
Days lived
20,494
Greg Browning🇦🇺
Australian field hockey player · b. 1953
Days alive
5,478
Harald Rose🇩🇪
scientist · b. 1935
Days alive
12,053
Heide Rosendahl🇩🇪
athlete · b. 1947
Days alive
7,670
Heinrich Schmieder🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1970–2010
Days lived
14,767
Hermann Reinecke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1888-1973) · 1888–1973
Days lived
31,284
Iheb Mbarki
Tunisian association football player · b. 1992
Ingo Voge🇩🇪
East German bobsledder · b. 1958
Days alive
3,652
Jack Benny🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican comedic entertainer (1894–1974) · 1894–1974
Days lived
29,534
Jaehyun (Jung Yoon-oh)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (NCT) · b. 1997
Jim Kelly🇺🇸
American football quarterback · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Jimmy Hoffa
deceasedNotable Trials · 1913–1975
Days lived
22,601
John Anderson🇺🇸
American linebacker in the National Football League (Green Bay Packers 1978-1989) · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
John Barrymore🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1882–1942) · 1882–1942
Days lived
22,018
Juju🇯🇵
singer · b. 1976
Karl Reinhardt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman classical philologist (1886–1958) · 1886–1958
Days lived
26,261
Kōki Hirota
deceasedNotable Trials · 1878–1948
Days lived
25,879
Madison Iseman
actor · b. 1997
Margarita Lozano🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish actress (1931-2022) · 1931–2022
Days lived
33,231
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Mark Rutte🇳🇱
Secretary General of NATO since 2024 and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (2010–2024) · b. 1967
Days alive
365
Marlinda Becker
Dutch baseball player · b. 1984
Michael Bloomberg🇺🇸
Founder of Bloomberg L.P., Philanthropist, Former Mayor of NYC · b. 1942
Days alive
9,496
Paul Butcher🇺🇸
American actor · b. 1994
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Piet Kraak
deceasedfootball player · 1921–1984
Days lived
23,084
Rolf Biese🇫🇮
deceasedFinnish table tennis player and tennis player (1918–2000) · 1918–2000
Days lived
29,939
Sergey Kapitsa🇬🇧
deceasedSoviet and Russian physicist, TV host (1928-2012) · 1928–2012
Days lived
30,863
Shin Dong-bin🇰🇷
Korean/Japanese businessman · b. 1955
Days alive
4,748
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Simon Pegg🇬🇧
Actor · b. 1970
Stephen Schwarzman🇺🇸
Private Equity Investor & CEO · b. 1947
Days alive
7,670
Steve McNair🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1973–2009) · 1973–2009
Days lived
13,289
Sung Hoon🇰🇷
South Korean actor · b. 1983
Tibor Sekelj
deceasedwriter · 1912–1988
Days lived
27,978
Tina Aumont🇺🇸
deceasedFrench actress (1946–2006) · 1946–2006
Days lived
22,171
Torben Brinkmann🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1991
Vladimir Ivshin🇷🇺
Russian scientist · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Zareh I
deceasedCatholicos of Cilicia (1915-1963) · 1915–1963
Days lived
17,536
Died on This Day
Abraham Rattner🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican artist (1893-1978) · 1893–1978
Days lived
30,901
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Andreas Stadler🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian weightlifter (1898–1941) · 1898–1941
Days lived
15,538
Andréi Chikatilo
deceasedNotable Trials · 1936–1994
Days lived
20,940
Carlos Menem
deceasedNotable Trials · 1930–2021
Days lived
33,100
David Hilbert
deceasedphilosopher · 1862–1943
Days lived
29,606
Dora Gerson🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1899-1943) · 1899–1943
Days lived
16,033
Erich Windisch
deceasedGerman ski jumper (1918-2007) · 1918–2007
Days lived
32,548
Ernst Ahl🇩🇪
deceasedjournalist · 1898–1945
Days lived
16,967
Glenn Snyder🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1924–2013
Days lived
32,271
Hans Freiherr von Funck🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1891–1979
Days lived
31,829
Harry Thompson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1889–1951) · 1889–1951
Days lived
22,437
Horst Wein🇩🇪
deceasedGerman non-fiction writer (1941-2016) · 1941–2016
Days lived
27,437
Imre Csepregi🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian Roman Catholic priest (1876-1954) · 1876–1954
Days lived
28,292
Jan de Kreek🇳🇱
deceasedfootball player · 1903–1988
Days lived
30,807
José Luis Panizo🇪🇸
deceasedfootball player · 1922–1990
Days lived
24,845
Julian Huxley🇬🇧
deceasedBritish evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975) · 1887–1975
Days lived
32,013
Ludwig Rellstab🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1904-1983) · 1904–1983
Days lived
28,572
Namiq İbrahim oğlu İbrahimov
deceasedAzerbaijani scientist · 1932–2016
Days lived
30,433
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Nándor Hidegkuti🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian football player and manager (1922–2002) · 1922–2002
Days lived
29,203
Otto Kittel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1917–1945) · 1917–1945
Days lived
10,220
Roepie Kruize
deceasedfield hockey player (1925-1992) · 1925–1992
Days lived
24,498
Sven Lidman🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish writer (1882–1960) · 1882–1960
Days lived
28,352
Tony Holiday🇩🇪
deceasedGerman pop singer and songwriter (1951–1990) · 1951–1990
Days lived
14,235
Victor Gruen🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1903-1980) · 1903–1980
Days lived
27,970
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Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,046
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,717
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,890
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,587
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,160
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,602
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,568
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,202
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,646
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,298
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,097
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,611
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,629
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,298
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,650
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,193
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,103
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,080
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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